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well this post is really of no report...

i am just tired of clicking to my blog and seeing the same thing.

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we returned home from vacation saturday night and have pretty much been in recovery mode since. dustin started school this week, and all of the sudden i feel like a single mother.

i hate school.

every day i look forward to the 5:00 hour for dust to come home and for family time begin. by family time of course, i mean daddy/minie time and mommy/zone-out time...what? big deal.

he really is a gigantic help with EVERTHING, and the past few days he has been sorely missed. minie can be caught pretty much anytime of day banging and peering out the window yelling "daddy!". cute girl.... it's endearing and immensley depressing all at once. come novemeber he will have 3 girls missing and staring out the window for him..

*sigh*.....

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let's see...

another little gem of an event, is this past weeks trip to labor and delivery.

barf.

that's how i feel about it.

tuesday afternoon around 4:00 i started having really painful contractions...very reminescent of early labor with minie. they weren't consistent, and stopped after about 2 hours. i tried to shrug it off, but after i continued to get them off and on for over 12 hours i finally caved and called L&D.. they of course insisted i come in with me being over 10 weeks early, and the on call doc to my OB advised me to be checked out as well. after a night long of pain and serious lack of sleep i reluctantly followed the medical professionals advice and went in. OF COURSE the moment i got there any and all contractions ceased, and not a one showed up on the monitor the entire 3+ hours i was being evaluated. i sheepishly was discharged with instructions to take it easy, eat healthier, and drink more water.

OOOKAY....

so glad i went to the hospital for that sound advice...

no, honestly it probably was for the best went in... if anything i got a nice 3 hour nap to the calming ho hum of machines, and thump-thump of sissy girls heart beat. i'm just really trying to forget the sobbing breakdown that also occured upon arrival when seeing my doctor in the actual L&D unit and his kind inquirment of why i was there. boy, did he get more than he bargained for with that simple (if not abesent-minded) question.

needless to say i wasn't ready to be back in there again... still not.

not yet.

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so we've just been on the down and out the past couple of days, and more than anything this coolish weather is keeping my sanity. i love how the wind is blowing and how you can feel fall in the air... i'm ready.

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that's really all.

as i told you, nothing to extroirdinare, but it's our life right now.

to make this post worth it,

here is the darling crazy woman we happily call ours.

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goodnight.

Boston / Martha's Vineyard

well, the jacksons are offcially off on our annual summer family vacation.

most of you know i don't sleep at night anyway, so here i am just blogging away, keeping you all updated on the happenings of our week.

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{Boston}

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{Martha's Vineyard}

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so far it has been a blast. we arrived into Boston saturday afternoon, spent two days there, and now just arrived to Martha's Vineyard today.
it is GORGEOUS here, and we are more than thrilled to continue to enjoy ourselves on the island for another 3 days.
you can be a little bit jealous.... that's alright :)
so until next time,

xoxo,

-brooke

if only, if only...

minie looked a little more like dustin

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seriously.. i nearly peed my pants when i camse across this 1982 version of my daughter peering up at me the other day.

minus the intense red, bad cut and sweat suit, it's her 100%.

maybe i will gentically contribute to the one inside of me this time around.

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it doesn't seem hopeful.

Up the canyon

These pictures are a little out of date, as are about half of my summer family shots.

I know, I know.... you are all lamenting the fact you are now brutally aware of missing out on that much more of my life, but you'll just have to cope... :)

Dinner up the canyon ranks right up there with my top favorite summer activities, and this year we have had several dining experiences in the great outdoors. Probably one of the reasons I love it so much is because it's pratically zero effort on my part... it's a whole other story for my mom though. She usually prepares all day, hauls all of the goods, and cooks all the food. It definately doesn't go unnoticed, and after re-reading this, I should probably actually try and help her out more...

Sorry Mom....

Hmm... Kennan and I have the same hair these days, and it sort of presents itself as a problem. It's gotten to the point of embarassment as we both wear name necklaces, similar clothing, and hang out with eachother 90% of the time.

Neither of us at this point is willing to change it though, because I claim being blonde first, and she claims being short. So in the mean time everyone just comments on us "looking like twins". Who woulda thunk??

However, I do know I could never look this great in a picture... he, he...

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And sweet Gretsel... I do love her, and no, I really could never look this cute.

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So there you go...

one more tid-bit of my life I know y'all were dying to know about.

I'm sure more excitement is to come!

diaper butts...

drive me nuts.

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oh,

and so does she.

Just a few...

for Michelle.

I hope you love them

:)

it's late...

why am i up uploading pics from my camera and working on them at this hour?

it's beyond me,

but i do adore these little lovelys.

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my fam = my fav

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goodnight....

our long weekend

we just returned home from a very lovely extended weekend.. because, yes.. i needed yet another one :).

no, in all reality dustin and i wanted to have some much needed family time, and the state holiday provided the perfect excuse for us.

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thursday, we spent the afternoon at the zoo. i think minsie did actually enjoy it, as she is all of the sudden really into animals of all species... with the slight exception of the "ghost of the bayou" which just down right frightens her. but other than that, she is pracitcally Bindi The Jungle Girl :)

so, the zoo lived up to our some what lowely expectations of itself.

no one knows why it is always about 10 degrees warmer there than anywhere else in the valley, or what those poor, wretched animals do all day???

regardless we still kind of love it, and i am glad we went.

after the zoo we headed up to Park City.

dustin's parents rented out a condo in deer valley, and they were kind enough to let us tag along with them on their extended weekend.

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it was so nice to be up there relaxing. park city truly is so beautiful, and such a perfect place to go and unwind. however, the pictures being posted here are somewhat deceveing. don't let that sweet, angelic face fool you. minie would NOT sleep the entire weekend trip, and was a crab the whole time... sadly (note the immense sacasm here), those moments weren't caught on film.

however, these sleeping ones were, and honeslty how sweet are they?? she may be a crazy, grumpy, screaming, hitting, no-no, 1 year old, but gosh darnnit, when she closes those eyes she is so beautiful.

i mean look at that sweet little tucked-toe......

i do just love her... despite all her craziness.

our weekend was wonderful... as i hope all of yours was too.

yes, and if minie is up again at 5:45 am this morning, she will officially be up for some type of auction. let us know...

thank you steve and alice again... it was lovely!

laaadies.. yeah!

well, we just returned for our girls trip to San Fran. there is no detail needed for me to delve into because all that happened on this trip was shopping.

whooooohey!!!

people, let's just all be honest and say that some serious money was spent.

it was so fun to hang with my sisters and mom, and fo sho this is turning into an annual event..

i love you sisters!

i'm in depression it is already over :(

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also, my pictures are all on the same day, and are on the edge of intenesly boring...

who has time for photoging while out shopping with sisters?

if some one answered "i do" to that, they need to get a life, or at least one fun sister.
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gretsel was that only baby invited, and honestly there has never been a better baby.

miss. san ramone herself.

she is so glam.

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kenna!

robyn...

it was sad because she had to leave a day early. she acts life having 4 kids is a big deal or something?

.... and yours truly 23 weeks preggo. i know... so hot.

and of course what is a post with out miss mins? here she is modeling her new coat, bed head and jammies. mmmm...i love her.

dustin was so great to take two days off work so i could go, and he even did her hair. he gets an A+. i LOVE him... thanks hubby.

so that's it for my weekend... i think i am the only one who even brought a camera, so this is it for the girls trip.

oh well.. we will all look really cute for the next 3 months.

just life..

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things have been so busy lately.

nothing too out of control, just busy...

just life i suppose.

it was rainy today, i was cooking dinner in a crock-pot, and the wind was rattling the front door like it almost constanty does from the months of october to april. for the slightest moment i looked outside and it felt like fall... like the cold. i smiled, because to me nothing is more comforting. cozy house, warm dinner, and stormy weather. however, the moment was fleeting and within minutes i was in a panic... cold will be here soon, and with it, our new daughter.

where is time going?? i often completley forget i am even pregnant, and moments like today scare me to no end.

it's not that i don't know the baby is coming, or not even that i am ready for her (which i'm not). i guess i just hate feeling like i am missing out on my own life. it is all the sudden on fast forward.. weeks seem like minutes, and time is all some how shorter, smaller, quicker.

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perhaps this is what spurred the photo above.

i love it.

it is just life... just my minie. and i will remember today.

the day i rushed. the day dustin was still annoyingly sick. the day minie cut her gum on her sippie, resulting in a suprising ammount of blood, naturally resulting in her second bath of the day.

and the day she still would give me this after all that.

i love how she is so well-natured.

i love how she looks just like her daddy.

i love how she loves mommy.

i love her.

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just for this moment time was stopped.

i love that.

for robyn

because he is nothing short of amazing...

oh little gandbabies...

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let's all just heave a gigantic **SIGH**.
after spending the entire evening trying to get 12 babies to cooperate and hold still, these are the best results. all the pics have an over all blurriness to them ,with heads, limbs, and even entire babies missing at times.
but really......
i think we farred out pretty well considering.... :)
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cute grandboys...


and even cuter grandgirls...


the whole brood.... caught blurred.

what can i do?? had you been there you would understand...

and last, but certainly not least,
the people responsible for such adorable mayhem.
(dad, you can thank me later for the quick teeth whitening...)
i got your back :)

what do you all say??

again tomorrow night too??

i know dad and trev are game.

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enjoy :)